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JOE FRANCIS CATCHES A BREAK

March 19, 2008

Joe Francis hasn't had things go his way for awhile. The founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" empire has been bouncing between jails in Florida and Nevada awaiting trial on federal tax charges and Florida child abuse and prostitution charges. While in jail he was accused of bribing a guard.

Now things seem to be breaking his way. He has settled lawsuits from some of his, her, actresses, and he plea-bargained the Florida charges for time already served, enabling him to get out of jail. Now he has hit a jackpot: he apparently has hours of footage of Eliot Spitzer's femme fatale "going wild" in his archives -- enabling him to call off negotiations to give her $1 million to film new footage. From the AP:

According to a "Girls Gone Wild" press release, Dupre visited Miami in 2003 to celebrate her 18th birthday. After fighting with a friend and getting thrown out of her hotel, Dupre found a nearby "Girls Gone Wild" bus, the company said.
She signed legal papers and spent a full week on the bus, filming seven full-length tapes which included nudity and same-sex encounters, according to the company.

"I personally ended up buying her a Greyhound bus ticket back home to North Carolina," Francis told the AP.

It must be great consolation to Elliot Spitzer that he has made both "Kristen" and Joe very happy.